Russian President Vladimir Putin's meeting with US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff was extremely fruitful, but various countries are trying to disrupt the dialogue between Moscow and Washington, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev said, quoted by Reuters.
Putin welcomed Witkoff last Friday in the former Russian imperial capital of St. Petersburg and they talked for nearly five hours. Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov and Dmitriev were also among the participants in the negotiations.
“The meeting was extremely fruitful“, Dmitriev told journalists in the Kremlin during today's visit of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to Moscow.
“Many people, structures and countries are trying to disrupt our dialogue with the US“, said Dmitriev and added that propaganda against Russia is being spread very actively in the US by various media.
“A very useful dialogue is taking place, but it is developing in very complex conditions of constant attacks and constant disinformation“, he added.
After his meeting with Putin, Witkoff told Fox News that it had become clear that Putin wanted to achieve lasting peace in Ukraine.